November 10, 2005

Bookends

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

Looking like bookends, a pair of Monarch Caterpillars in the process of consuming a milkweed plant.

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November 8, 2005

All Creatures Great And Small (Take Three)

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

A Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar approaches the flowers of a milkweed plant. The flowers, which are very small, put the caterpillar in perspective.

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November 5, 2005

Monarch Caterpillar Snacktime

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

A Monarch Butterfly caterpillar in the process of devouring a leave on a milkweed plant. Snacktime for Monarch Caterpillars is any time they find a milkweed plant that still has leaves.

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October 21, 2005

All Creatures Great And Small (Take Two)

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

A small Monarch Butterfly caterpillar, about a quarter of an inch long, looks for fresh milkweed leaves. If you look closely, you can see the caterpillar's eyes.

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October 18, 2005

All Creatures Great And Small

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

A small Monarch Butterfly caterpillar, about a quarter of an inch long, looks for whatever foliage is left on the end of this milkweed clipping. The milkweed clipping was in the process of being prepared for replanting.

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October 14, 2005

Making The Small Larger

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/500 at f/32 | Focal Length: 90mm

A small Monarch Butterfly caterpillar, about a quarter of an inch long, snacks on the end of a milkweed plant. This caterpillar was discovered on the end of a milkweed clipping that was being prepared for replanting, and was photographed at close to life-size.

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September 14, 2005

Shopping For Dinner?

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/100 at f/11 | Focal Length: 90mm

A ladybug searches a milkweed leaf for a meal.

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August 22, 2005

Outtakes? (Monarch Caterpillar Study #3)

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/10 at f/11 | Focal Length: 90mm

Details: ISO: 400 | Exposure: 1/20 at f/8 | Focal Length: 90mm

Two more images of the Monarch caterpillar that has taken up residence in recently planted milkweed. These were taken from slightly different angles and not as close as the previously displayed images, and are probably outtakes (more often than not, I think that closer is better when it comes to photography). You can see Study #1 and Study #2 by clicking on these links.

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July 11, 2005

Casting a Web

Details: ISO: 400 | Exposure: 1/30 at f/11 | Focal Length: 300mm

A spider's web refracts the late afternoon sunlight.

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June 29, 2005

Surveying the Damage

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/60 at f/16 | Focal Length: 90mm

A mature Eastern Lubber Grasshopper basks in the late afternoon sunlight and seemingly surveys the damage it has done to a tropical plant.

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June 27, 2005

Hanging Around (Monarch Caterpillar Study #2)

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/6 at f/16 | Focal Length: 90mm

Another view of the Monarch caterpillar that has taken up residence (temporarily) in recently planted milkweed. If you look closely, you can even see some of the caterpillar's eyes. Guessing from the size of the antennae (sometimes called tentacles) on the head, it will not be too much longer before this caterpillar begins its transformation into a mature butterfly.

You can see Study #1 by clicking on this link.

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June 25, 2005

If You Build It... (Monarch Caterpillar Study #1)

Details: ISO: 400 | Exposure: 1/15 at f/11 | Focal Length: 90mm

Apparently the phrase, "if you build it, they will come" holds true for Monarch Butterflies. Several weeks after planting some Milkweed, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Monarchs, including this Monarch caterpillar (slightly longer than an inch), had arrived.

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June 22, 2005

Sunbathing

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/250 at f/9 | Focal Length: 90mm

The Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea Guttata) in its larval/juvenile sustage sunbathing on a leaf.

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June 18, 2005

Impromptu Insect Portrait

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/200 at f/10 | Focal Length: 90mm

When this juvenile Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea Guttata) noticed me with my camera, it stopped as if to pose for a quick impromptu portrait before moving away.

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June 16, 2005

Oh, To Be A Fly On The Wall...

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/200 at f/5 | Focal Length: 90mm

While I was out taking pictures over the weekend, I noticed several small flies taking turns landing on a fire bush. The flies seemed to be stopping to watch what I was doing, and I couldn't help think of the phrase "oh, to be a fly on the wall...."

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June 13, 2005

Hunting

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/250 at f/8 | Focal Length: 300mm

The Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea Guttata) in its larval/juvenile sustage hunting for its next leafy meal.

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June 7, 2005

Snacktime

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/125 at f/4 | Focal Length: 90mm

A Zebra Longwing (heliconius charitonius), the State Butterfly of Florida, snacking on a fire bush.

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May 30, 2005

All Creatures Great And Small

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/125 at f/5.6 | Focal Length: 90mm

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/125 at f/5.6 | Focal Length: 90mm

During a trip to a local gardening center yesterday, I stumbled across a Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and caterpillars that have taken up residence.

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May 18, 2005

Symbiosis (Pentas Study #2)

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/320 at f/16 | Focal Length: 90mm

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/320 at f/18 | Focal Length: 90mm

Details: ISO: 200 | Exposure: 1/320 at f/18 | Focal Length: 90mm

Pentas Lanceolata with a Bee.

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